RNAi-2005-Boston Meeting Testimonials

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“I enjoyed the meeting immensely, and was a very rewarding experience.” – Dr. Sidney Altman, Sterling Professor, Nobel Laureate, Yale University, New Haven, CT

“It is a great event; every body has an opportunity to enjoy the excellent science and beautiful environment.” -Dr. Zequn Tang, Scientist, Chiron Corp. Emeryville, CA

“The meeting had an excellent balance of Technology and Biology, moreover I truly enjoyed the meeting, and was honored to present amongst speakers of such caliber. RNAi-2005-Boston is quite possibly the best RNAi meeting I've attended to date.” – Dr. Tarif Awad, Senior Scientist, Affymetrix, Inc. Santa Clara, CA

“It is indeed a great effort in organizing this superb event.” -Dr. Mark Behlke, Vice President, Integrated DNA Technologies, Coralville, IA

“This was my first time attending a conference on RNAi and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed myself. The setting proved to be relaxed and enjoyable yet organized and productive. I enjoyed meeting and listening to people with expertise in all aspects of the industry and learning about the future of RNAi technology. To know and to be part of this group of people was to get a glimpse into the succession and future of medicine. This technology has taken the next step in targeting the root of disease rather than attacking the symptoms. Generations from now, pharmaceuticals may be considered a more crude way to treat disease, yet the only method available at the time, and RNAi technology elegant.” - Bridget Gomes, Sales Specialist, SIGMA -Proligo

“Mixing latest science with an update on the industry, this meeting might well become a standard for the industry; personally it was most helpful for us to be there.” - Dr. Steffen Panzner, CEO, novosom AG, Germany

“Fantastic program and thanks for your company’s great efforts in organising another wonderful conference. We are very happy that we made several business discussions in this meeting.” - Elias Papatheodorou, COO, novosom AG, Germany

“I was very much impressed with well-organization of this RNAi meeting.” – Dr. Bill Zheng, Professor, The Medical University of Southern China, Guangzhou, China

“The conference was a great success with excellent presentations from the experts.” - Dr. Kunyuan Cui, PhD. Sr. Research Scientist, Nastech Pharmaceutical Company Inc. Bothell, WA

“The venue and food are excellent; on top of those presentations by high caliber scientists are exceptionally great.” – Dr. Larry A. McReynolds, Director of Research, New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA

“It was a great meeting with outstanding presentations.” Dr. Monica Vella, Asilas Genomic Systems, Inc. New haven, CT

“The conference nicely integrated the academic and industry talks, and gave me an opportunity to learn broad range of areas in the RNAi field; most importantly it provided a relaxing environment to discuss with the experts.” – Julie Thompson, Research Associate II, Aveo Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA

“The meeting was fabulous covered broad spectrum of areas with a very good mix of speakers absolutely rich with data rather than commercial glitch.” – Dr. Kimberly Gillis, Baxter HealthCare, Norwood, MA

“It is very valuable for new siRNA-companies like us from Europe to participate on such a meeting that has wide collection of many important people from the RNAi-field, and also gave us a good chance to network with people and meet them in person rather than via e-mail or telephone.” - Rebekka Nøkling, CEO, siRNAsense AS, Oslo, Norway

“It is a worthwhile enjoyable meeting with great mix of speakers, I learn a lot from it.” – Dr. Amy Espeseth, Research Fellow, Merck, West Point, PA

“I like the meeting so much, and was highly useful for networking with the vendors who has the cutting–edge tools in the field.” - Dr. Anthony Orth, Group Leader, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, CA

“The format of the meeting was very good, hotel facilities were wonderful, most importantly the interactions that I made with vendors were highly useful.” Cory Painter, Sr. Associate Scientist, Pfizer Global R&D, Ann Arbor, MI

“I congratulate the organizer for running this excellent meeting, and I enjoyed it very much”. Dr. Frank Czauderna, Serono Research Institute, Rockland, MA